At Alcatel-Lucent, your job is more than just another day at the office. You could be helping to transform our company into the leading network integrator for service providers. Or working to deliver world-class products based on Bell Labs technology that shapes the way people around the world live, work and play.

This is your chance to be part of the future. Where else can you work alongside the brightest minds in the business? Alcatel-Lucent is home to Nobel laureates, National Medal of Science winners, National Academy of Science winners, Emmy Award winners and patent owners. Bell Labs, the innovation engine behind Alcatel-Lucent, averages two patents every day. The list of Bell Labs inventions reads like an encyclopedia of technological breakthroughs and includes: the transistor, which ushered in the digital age; the charge-coupled device, which made digital imaging and portable video possible; cellular telephony, which revolutionized mobile communications; the UNIX computer operating system, which is the foundation for the Internet; the laser; and communication satellites.

We firmly believe that every employee is in charge of managing his or her own career and personal development. Our people management processes are designed to help you shape your individual career path and plan development activities to support your professional evolution. Our global Performance Management Program ensures that a regular dialog takes place between you and your manager in order to set expectations, assess performance and address professional evolution and development needs. Our HR professionals offer Professional Development support identifying and developing those people who have the potential to hold leadership and key positions in the company.

With campuses throughout the world, Alcatel-Lucent University offers a broad range of Learning Services to all employees through its "one stop shopping" learning portal. Training is available in blended mode, thereby mixing classroom training with virtual learning programs to optimize the time invested in learning. The different learning curricula available are linked to specific job qualifications and certifications and pave the way for our employee's career development.

In our global organization you have endless development possibilities. We actively encourage internal mobility not only geographical but also across job functions and business units.